The Rev. Barbara White said she was appalled by the not guilty verdict the jury returned late Saturday night in the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida.

“I can tell you that if I were on that jury, it would have been a hung jury,” White said Sunday.

White was not alone. She talked briefly on Sunday about the trial, which drew national attention for weeks, and the verdict with some of the members of the congregation at the Evans Memorial AME Zion Church in Norwich.

“It’s safe to say most people think justice was not served,” White said. “It was not a fair verdict.”

White said she’d be “praying and hoping” that some good would come from the decision.

Lottie Scott, a founding member of the Norwich branch of the NAACP, also is troubled by the jury’s decision.

Scott said she hasn’t watched television coverage since the verdict came out.

“The death of Trayvon Martin is cause for thought,” she said. “He was profiled. He can’t tell his story.”

The concern for Scott is that the verdict would send a message that racial profiling is acceptable

“I respect the jury system, but something is wrong,” she said.

The outcome “says there is still work to be done,” Scott said. “Particularly with our young black men … Every black mother should be concerned about their children.”

Not all are as upset by the verdict. David Larkin watched some of the coverage and heard an attorney say the case never should have become as high-profile as it did.

“That was what stuck in my mind,” the Mystic man said. “(Zimmerman) initially wasn’t even charged.”

But Larkin wasn’t sure Zimmerman’s self-defense argument was valid.

“Was he not guilty? That’s tough to say,” he said. “But the jurors did not see enough evidence to convict him.”